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Mackenzie Phillips

America Can Do Better -- Stopping Child Abuse Deaths

Michael Petit | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Congress, Child Abuse, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael Petit

Children at grave risk of being abused or killed need the government's protection and we should have a national approach for doing this because the heavy toll exacted by abuse and neglect is both economic and moral.

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Oprah: Incest Revisited

Deborah King | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, The Kiss, High-on-Arrival, Truth Heals, MacKenzie Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Oprah, Incest, Oprah Winfrey Show, Katherine Harrison, Living News
Deborah King

Mackenzie Phillips has done everyone a huge favor by acting as our societal point person for incest and speaking out very publicly. I applaud her courage.

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Remember Privacy?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Entertainment Tonight, Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Kathy Griffin, David Letterman Extortion, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Jon and Kate, Skype, Facebook, Technology, Privacy, David Letterman, Media News
Tamar Abrams

It's one thing to voluntarily relinquish all pretense to one's one privacy, but totally different to spill the most intimate details of the lives of others, particularly if they aren't around to defend themselves.

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Celebrities Behaving Badly

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, MacKenzie Phillips, John Edwards, Bernard Madoff, Michael Vick, Roman Polanski, John Phillips, David Letterman, Living News
BJ Gallagher

Sociologists tell us that deviance plays a positive role for society. Deviance shows us what happens with you cross certain boundaries - as well as what and where those boundaries are.

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Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Blackrock, Bill Clinton, MacKenzie Phillips, Sex Scandal, Incest, Career Advice, Jobs, The Ed Sullivan Theatre, Cbs, Bulletproof-Your-Resume, Tiffany Network, Bulletproof Your Job, High on Arrival, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Office Romance, Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman, Business News
Stephen Viscusi

Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...

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An Apology to WuDunn and Kristof and a Thunk on the Head to Larry King

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Tapestries of Hope, MacKenzie Phillips, Larry King, Half the Sky, Zimbabwe Human Rights Violations, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Living News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Acid burnings, dowry deaths, sexual trafficking, rape, molestation: the list is growing, and it is all part of the systematic oppression of women and girls worldwide.

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Letterman, Whoopi, and What Oprah Really Wants

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Oprah Winfrey, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Living News
Trish Kinney

Someone told me that Oprah had offered a million dollars to Jaycee Dugard, so I set off to investigate.

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Art Is Not Enough

Allison Anders | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment

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Allison Anders

Art should never be held above our decency to each other. And when an artist commits a crime, especially a sex crime and especially against a child, we do art no favor by giving artists a break we would not give anyone else.

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Oprah, Mackenzie, and the Fam

Trish Kinney | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

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Trish Kinney

I, too, have a new memoir, which focuses on paternal sexual abuse. But my story is nothing like Mackenzie's. It is hard for anyone to relate to the perfect storm of dreadful circumstances which doomed her.

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Mackenzie Phillips Slept With Her Dad

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Rape, The Mamas and the Papas, Incest, Body Image, Self-Love, Chynna Phillips, Self-Esteem, The Oprah Winfrey Show, John Phillips, Living News
Susan Harrow

While Phillips's is an extreme case, you don't have to sleep with or have been raped by your dad to feel bad about yourself, your body or your sexuality.

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Bijou Phillips, MacKenzie's Half-Sister, Knew About Incestuous Affair At Age 13

AP | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

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From the AP: CHICAGO -- Actress Bijou Phillips says she knew her half-sister Mackenzie Phillips had consensual sex with their father, Mamas and the P...

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Stepmom Michelle Phillips: I'm Mad At Mackenzie

Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

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Michelle Phillips, John Phillips' second wife and a former member of The Mamas and the Papas, has some choice words for her stepdaughter. She finds Ma...

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Mackenzie Phillips Scores

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mackenzie Phillips Incest, Drug Addiction, Michael Wolff, The Mamas & the Papas, MacKenzie Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Mackenzie Phillips Oprah, Incest, Mackenzie Phillips Family Secret, Heroin, John Phillips, Entertainment News
Michael Wolff

As it happens, whenever we follow an incest story at Newser it becomes the biggest story. The Phillips story is even bigger because it's not just an incest story but also a disputed incest story.

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Mackenzie Phillips, Child Abuse and Divorce

Belinda Etezad Rachman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: MacKenzie Phillips, Child Abuse, Divorce, John Phillips, Sexual Abuse, John-Phillips-Incest, Child Sexual Abuse, Living News
Belinda Etezad Rachman

Since the subject of sexual abuse of children is in the news, it might be a good time to review some of the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse.

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An Open Letter to MacKenzie Phillips

Deborah King | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Deborah King

MacKenzie Phillips' "coming out" on Oprah as an incest survivor triggered a lot of my own memories. But she has one piece of the story dead wrong: it was not a consensual relationship.

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Mackenzie Phillips Defends Father Despite Incest, Stepmom Michelle Phillips Calls Her A Liar (VIDEO)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

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(AP TEXT, SCROLL FOR VIDEO) NEW YORK - Mackenzie Phillips has defended her father John Phillips as "a good man" despite her claims that they had an i...

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The Curse of Celebrity Children

Shawn Amos | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Elijah Blue Allman, MacKenzie Phillips, Gregg Allman, Nicole Richie, Jett Williams, Rod Stewart, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, Kelly Osboure, Jack Osbourne, Sean Stewart, Hank Williams, John Phillips, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

I got lucky: my father wasn't a junkie, nearly as famous as John Phillips, nor negligent as most celebrity parents. He was just a cookie pusher. I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole.

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Mackenzie Phillips and the Stockholm Syndrome

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

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Alison Rose Levy

In the aftermath of Mackenzie Phillip's shocking revelations of long term incest with her father, "Papa" John Phillips of the sixties' singing group, the Mamas and the Papas, some people are wondering why the actress allowed the incest to continue for ten years-- into her twenties.

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Chynna Phillips Speaks Out On Mackenzie's Affair With Their Dad

usmagazine.com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Chynna, 41, tells Us Weekly she remembers getting the call from Mackenzie, 49, in 1997 11 years after the affair had ended while she was between fligh...

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Mackenzie Phillips To Oprah (VIDEO): My Father "Tried To Make It A Romance"

Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Mackenzie Phillips told all to Oprah on Wednesday. She said she and her father John had a longterm consensual incestuous affair, that began with a dru...

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Mackenzie Phillips To Oprah: Decade Of Sex With Dad Ended With Abortion

Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

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CHICAGO -- Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday her father, John Phillips, who was a leader of the 1960s pop group the Mamas and the Pa...

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Mackenzie Phillips' Secret Sexual Relationship With Dad John Detailed

people.com | Posted 09.22.2009 | Entertainment

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"Don't hate my father," Mackenzie Phillips tells PEOPLE. But in a tell-all book out Wednesday, the former childhood actress reveals that her dad, m...

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Mackenzie Phillips' Rape: Incest Is NEVER Consensual

Alex Leo | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Alex Leo

Mackenzie Phillips could not have given consent. She was 19 and drugged out of her mind and her father raped her.

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Mackenzie Phillips' Oprah BOMBSHELL: Reveals Family Secret, Sex With Her Father: Report

Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

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UPDATE: 6:20 Tuesday: Phiilips tells Oprah that she had sex with her father John Phillips. People.com has more book excerpts detailing their long term...

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Mackenzie Phillips Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

Reuters | Posted 12.02.2008 | Entertainment

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Former "One Day at Time" television star Mackenzie Phillips pleaded guilty to cocaine possession on Friday and was ordered into another drug rehab pro...

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